SUSE Shell Request

[osp_suse]

I noticed suse@polarhome is using python v2.4.2. Would it be possible to upgrade to the latest version 2.5.1?

Whats new from 2.4 to 2.5? (Taken From Dummies Book)

*Many Performance Inprovements
*Conditional Expressions
*Absolute Inports
*Updated Exception Hierarchy
*with Statement
*Unified try-except And try-except-finally
*Boolean Functions any() And all()
*Generators have send(), throw(), And close() Methods
*__index__ Special Method
*partition() and rpartition() String Methods
*sqllite3 Package
*ctypes Package
*ElementTree Package

[dillona_aix]

Hi,
I've never written any python, so maybe you could answer this:
Will the update allow existing applications to continue to run?
If its going to break things, the other users need to be alerted.
Best,
Dillon

[osp_suse]

It should not break any excisting code unless you are using 2.5 code in which case 2.5 code will not run in 2.4, 2.3, and 2.2, but 2.2 and up should run without any modifications on 2.5. I'm not 100% sure though, so i would alert the users anyways just in case.

Michael

[dillona_aix]

That's plenty of time for protests.
However, I can't seem to find RPM's for the new python, so if you see any send them my way.

[afonic]

Dillon AFAIK only Python 2.4.x comes with openSuse 10.0 (I believe thats what you are using right?). Python 2.5.x was introduced with openSuse 10.2 (again I am not 100% sure).

So you either need to find a backport repo (I don't really know if it exists) or manually compile and install 2.5.x which would make upgrading harder. Of course you could also try to update the whole server to 10.3 (should be released two days from now).

Keep in mind that all Python programs written for 2.4 will work flawlessly for 2.5 as well so no read need to announce it to users.

[dillona_aix]

I ended up building from source.
Please give it a try.